The title page of the quarto of the play later called
Henry the Sixth, Part One.

Though Shakespeare took great care in the preparation of his
long poems for the press, his first plays to be published did
not have his name on the title page (plays were not
considered real Literature).

In fact, the version of Henry VI, Part Two which
appeared in 1594 was one of the untidy and problematic texts that are sometimes thought to have been pirated, or reconstructed from memory. In any case its appearance suggests that it was popular.

Some twenty* of his plays were published
in his lifetime, the later ones with his name on the title
page. The name clearly became a selling point as his
reputation grew; in fact, some plays clearly not by
Shakespeare were published with his name on the title page in
an apparent attempt to make them more attractive to the
buyer.

The remaining plays were published in the
First
Folio in 1623. The Folio is the main
collection of his plays, and was published some seven years
after his death by two actor friends.